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"America can't shrink its reliance on mass incarceration until we confront our approach to punishment. These essays by renowned experts in a variety of fields and voices from incarcerated populations focus on our deep-rooted impulse to punish people in ways that are far beyond what could be considered proportionate. Together, they illustrate how necessary it is to rein in the punitive excess of the criminal legal system, which is inexorably entwined with the legacy of slavery. They also highlight how we have marginalized poor communities and people of color through criminalization and punishment. Addressing a range of issues-from policing to prosecution to incarceration to life after prison-the writers highlight how our nation has prioritized excess punishment over more supportive and less traumatic ways of dealing with social harm. The essays explore whether, when, and how we could have made different decisions that would have changed the way these systems of punishment and social control evolved. Looking ahead, they also ask how we can learn from this failed experiment with mass incarceration and prioritize human dignity over human misery"--

Punishment --- Mass incarceration --- Imprisonment --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Discrimination in criminal justice administration --- Social aspects --- Social aspects

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Mass incarceration is one of the most pressing ethical and political issues of our time. In this volume, philosophers join activists and those incarcerated on death row to grapple with contemporary U.S. punishment practices and draw out critiques around questions of power, identity, justice, and ethical responsibility. This work takes shape against a backdrop of disturbing trends: The United States incarcerates more of its own citizens than any other country in the world. A disproportionate number of these prisoners are people of color, and, today, a black man has a greater chance of going to prison than to college. The United States is the only Western democracy to retain the death penalty, even after decades of scholarship, statistics, and even legal decisions have depicted a deeply flawed system structured by racism and class oppression. Motivated by a conviction that mass incarceration and state execution are among the most important ethical and political problems of our time, the contributors to this volume come together from a diverse range of backgrounds to analyze, critique, and envision alternatives to the injustices of the U.S. prison system, with recourse to deconstruction, phenomenology, critical race theory, feminism, queer theory, and disability studies. They engage with the hyper-incarceration of people of color, the incomplete abolition of slavery, the exploitation of prisoners as workers and as “raw material” for the prison industrial complex, the intensive confinement of prisoners in supermax units, and the complexities of capital punishment in an age of abolition. The resulting collection contributes to a growing intellectual and political resistance to the apparent inevitability of incarceration and state execution as responses to crime and to social inequalities. It addresses both philosophers and activists who seek intellectual resources to contest the injustices of punishment in the United States.

Capital punishment --- Imprisonment --- Punishment --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Abolition. --- Convict Lease System. --- Critical Prison Studies. --- Death Penalty. --- Mass Incarceration. --- Punishment. --- Racism. --- Resistance. --- Slavery. --- Supermax. --- capital punishment.

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Far more than a building of brick and mortar, the prison relies upon gruesome stories circulated as commercial media to legitimize its institutional reproduction. Perhaps no medium has done more in recent years to both produce and intervene in such stories than television.

This unapologetically interdisciplinary work presents a series of investigations into some of the most influential and innovative treatments of American mass incarceration to hit our screens in recent decades. Looking beyond celebratory accolades, Lee A. Flamand argues that we cannot understand the eagerness of influential programs such as OZ, The Wire, Orange Is the New Black, 13th, and Queen Sugar to integrate the sensibilities of prison ethnography, urban sociology, identity politics activism, and even Black feminist theory into their narrative structures without understanding how such critical postures relate to the cultural aspirations and commercial goals of a quickly evolving TV industry and the most deeply ingrained continuities of American storytelling practices.

Mass media and criminal justice --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Prisons in mass media. --- Prisons --- Criminal justice and mass media --- Mass media --- Post-Network Television, Mass Incarceration, Race, Prison, New Golden Age of TV. --- Prison television programs --- History and criticism.

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"This volume represents the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to Jacques Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars, conducted from 1999 to 2001. The volume includes essays from a range of scholars working in philosophy, law, Francophone studies, and comparative literature, including established Derridians, activist scholars, and emerging scholars. These essays attempt to elucidate and expand upon Derrida's deconstruction of the theologico-political logic of the death penalty in order to construct a new form of abolitionism, one not rooted in the problematic logics of sovereign power. These essays provide remarkable insight into Derrida’s ethical and political projects; this volume will not only explore the implications of Derrida’s thought on capital punishment and mass incarceration, but will also help to further elucidate the philosophical groundwork for his later deconstructions of sovereign power and the human/animal divide. Because Derrida is deconstructing the logic of the death penalty, rather than the death penalty itself, his seminars will prove useful to scholars and activists opposing all forms of state sanctioned killing. In compiling this volume, our goals were twofold: first, to make a case for Derrida's continuing importance in debates on capital punishment, mass incarceration, and police brutality, and second, to construct a new, versatile abolitionism, one capable of confronting all forms the death penalty might take." -- Publisher's description.

Power (Social sciences) --- Imprisonment --- Capital punishment --- Capital punishment --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Derrida, Jacques. --- Capital Punishment. --- Death Penalty Abolition. --- Death Penalty. --- Deconstruction. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Mass Incarceration. --- Political Theology. --- Prison Industrial Complex. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Sovereignty.

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"Challenging Confinement is an examination of how the feminist movements in the late twentieth century ignited prison protests, activism, and reform in women's prisons during the era of mass incarceration"--

Women prisoners --- Reformatories for women --- Feminism --- Civil rights --- Discrimination in criminal justice administration --- History --- Activism. --- Battered Women. --- Clemency. --- Clubwomen. --- Detroit. --- Equality. --- Gender. --- Incarceration. --- Mass incarceration. --- Prison litigation. --- Prison. --- Race. --- Reform. --- Rights. --- Strike. --- Women.